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1990 Nicaraguan General Election
General elections were held in Nicaragua on 25 February 1990 to elect the President and the members of the National Assembly.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p489 The result was a victory for the National Opposition Union (UNO), whose presidential candidate Violeta Chamorro surprisingly defeated incumbent president Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). This led to a historic peaceful and democratic transfer of power in Nicaragua. Background Ortega had held power since the FSLN toppled the Somoza dictatorship in 1979. Chamorro was the editor of the country’s largest newspaper, ''La Prensa'', which she took over after the assassination of her husband Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal in 1978. A vocal critic of the dictatorship, his murder galvanized support for the Sandinistas against the dictatorship. Following the revolution that overthrew Somoza, Violeta Chamorro initially supported the FSLN government, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta Chamorro
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro (; 18 October 1929) is a Nicaraguan politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the first and, as of 2022, only woman to hold the position of president of Nicaragua. Born into a landed family in southern Nicaragua, Chamorro was partially educated in the United States. After returning to her home country, she married and raised a family. Her husband, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, was a journalist working at his family's newspaper, ''La Prensa'', which he later inherited. As a result of his anti-government stance, he was often jailed or exiled, forcing Chamorro to spend a decade following him abroad or visiting him in jail. When he was assassinated in 1978, Chamorro took over the newspaper. Pedro's murder strengthened the Nicaraguan Revolution and his image, as wielded by his widow, became a powerful symbol for the opposition forces. Initially, when the Sandinistas were victorious over Anastasio Somoza Debayl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidro Téllez Toruño
Isidro Ignacio Téllez Toruño (born c. 1948) is a Nicaraguan politician and trade unionist.''La Prensa''. Ortega “secuestra” al sindicalismo' He served as general secretary of the Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement (MAP-ML) and is a veteran leader of ''Frente Obrero'' ('Workers' Front'). He hails from a family of farm workers in León. In early 1980, he was sentenced to two years of prison labour for statements expressed in the MAP-ML organ '' El Pueblo'', deemed counter-revolutionary by the new government. Téllez Toruño and other personalities sentenced in the same penal case appealed the ruling, and the sentence was revised to three months prison labour. Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the 1984 Nicaraguan general election, obtaining 11,352 votes. Téllez Toruño represented the MAP-ML in the National Assembly 1984-1990. Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the 1990 Nicaraguan general election.Carter Center. Observ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
León Department
León () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 5,138 km2 and has a population of 423,012 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of León. Municipalities # El Jicaral # El Sauce # La Paz Centro # Larreynaga # León # Nagarote Nagarote () is a town and a municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. The town of Nagarote has a population of 25,578 while the rural areas surrounding it has a population of 13,448. Nagarote is located from Managua. History Nagarote ... # Quezalguaque # San José de Achuapa # Santa Rosa del Peñón # Telica References Departments of Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinotega Department
Jinotega () is a Departments of Nicaragua, department of Nicaragua. Its departmental head is Jinotega. It is located in the north of the country, on the border with Honduras. The Department of Jinotega has a population of 483,404 (2021 estimate) and covers an area of 9,222 km2. It is one of the 15 most extensive departments in the country. Founded on October 15, 1891. The city of Jinotega "Las Brumas" is the departmental capital of the homonymous department with an urban population of 53 265 inhabitants in the year 2017. It is located in a valley at an altitude of 1,003.87 meters above sea level with a cool climate at an average temperature of 25 °C and a distance of 142 km from Managua (2h 44 min, by Carr.Panamericana / Panamericana Nte./CA-1). ''Source: National Institute for Development Information (INIDE) - Nicaragua. Statistical Yearbook 2016 - 18'' The department generates its own power through Lake Apanás Dam, which is also a tourist attraction. Isabeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granada Department
Granada () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 1040 km2 and has a population of 215,965 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Granada, one of North America's oldest cities. Municipalities # Diria # Diriomo # Granada # Nandaime Nandaime is a town and a municipality in the Granada department of Nicaragua. Nandaime is a small town in the southwestern part of the country. It is located on the Panamerican highway which crosses the Pacific area of Nicaragua, at a distance ... References Departments of Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estelí Department
Estelí () is a department of Nicaragua. It covers an area of 2,230 km2 and has a population of 230,953 (2021 estimate). Its capital is the city of Estelí. Municipalities # Condega # Estelí # La Trinidad # Pueblo Nuevo # San Juan de Limay San Juan de Limay is a municipality in the Estelí department of Nicaragua. It is famous for its artisan production of soapstone (marmolina) sculptures. San Juan de Limay is located 195 km north of Managua in the north of Nicaragua only a s ... # San Nicolás References External links Mapa del Departamento de EstelíPortal del Norte de NicaraguaPortal de Estelí Nicaragua Departments of Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chontales Department
Chontales ( es, Departamento de Chontales) () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 6,481 km² and has a population of 191,856. The capital is Juigalpa. Some of land overlooks Lake Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua) on the western side. The department is livestock and fishing based, and is also a producer of apples. Geography The Chontales Department is situated in the central-southwest part of the country. It is bordered by the Boaco Department to the north, the Río San Juan Department to the south, the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region to the east and Lake Cocibolca to the west. Chontales geographically primarily consists of the slopes around Lake Cocibolca, the Serranía Chontaleña range and rolling hills that undulate towards the Caribbean plain. The Cuisalá, a tributary of the Mayales flows in the northwestern part of the department. The shoreline of Lake Cocibolca within the department is about , between the mouths of the Tecolostote and Oyate rivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinandega Department
Chinandega () is a department in Nicaragua, located on the border with Honduras. It covers an area of 4,822 km2 and has a population of 441,897 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Chinandega. Largely agricultural, it produces rum from sugar cane; other products are bananas, peanuts, shrimp and salt. The port of Corinto, in Chinandega, is the most important in Western Nicaragua. Municipalities * Chichigalpa * Chinandega * Corinto * El Realejo * El Viejo * Posoltega * Puerto Morazán * San Francisco del Norte * San Juan de Cinco Pinos * San Pedro del Norte * Santo Tomás del Norte * Somotillo Somotillo is a town and a municipality in the Chinandega department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the ea ... * Villanueva References Departments of Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carazo Department
Carazo () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 1,081 km2 and has a population of 198,395 (2021 estimate). The capital is Jinotepe. Geography Much of the department consists of a large plain sloping gently down towards the Pacific Ocean. The main urban centres are Diriamba and Jinotepe in the interior. The adjoining departments are Managua, Masaya, Granada and Rivas. The climate is tropical with the temperature varying between 28 and 32 °C (82 and 90 °F). The hottest months are April and May. The rain falls mainly between May and October and the rest of the year is dry. Economy and tourism The inland part of the department produces a variety of agricultural crops including high quality coffee and near the ocean the subtropical climate suits citrus trees and sugar cane. Livestock and cereal crops are also produced there and stone of volcanic origin is quarried. The Pacific coast offers beaches with tourist facilities. Other tourist destinations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boaco Department
Boaco () is a department in Nicaragua. It was formed in 1938 out of part of Chontales Department. It covers an area of 4,177 km2 and has a population of 186,284 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Boaco. Indigenous peoples are the ''Nahuas'' and '' Sumos''. Municipalities # Boaco # Camoapa Camoapa is a city and a Municipalities of Nicaragua, municipality in the Boaco (department), Boaco Departments of Nicaragua, department of Nicaragua. Camoapa city is the capital of a municipality described within the Boaco departmental area of N ... # San José de los Remates # San Lorenzo # Santa Lucía # Teustepe References Departments of Nicaragua States and territories established in 1938 {{Nicaragua-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Liberal Party For National Unity
The Independent Liberal Party for National Unity (Partido Liberal Independiente por la Unidad Nacional) (PLIUN) is a Nicaraguan centre-right party that split from the Independent Liberal Party in 1984 as a consequence of PLI's decision to participate in the 1984 elections. PLIUN received legal status in 1989. As of 2006, PLIUN is part of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party electoral alliance in the 2006 Nicaraguan general election General elections were held in Nicaragua on 5 November 2006. The country's voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and 90 members of the National Assembly. Daniel Ortega (FSLN) won the election with 37.99% of the vote, .... References Political parties established in 1989 Conservative liberal parties Liberal parties in Nicaragua {{Liberalparty-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Conservative Party
The Democratic Conservative Party (Spanish: ''Partido Conservador Demócrata'', PCD) is a Nicaraguan political party with a traditional conservative ideology. The party was formed in 1979. Clemente Guido participated as PCD's presidential candidate in the 1984 elections, winning 14 percent of the vote and finishing in second place behind Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front The Sandinista National Liberation Front ( es, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a Socialism, socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas () in both English and Spanish. The party is named after ... (FSLN). References 1979 establishments in Nicaragua Conservative parties in Nicaragua Political parties established in 1979 Political parties in Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
